Principal Robotics Engineer (Robotics)

Location: Hybrid role based in Austin, Texas, with extensive work from Austin required. Up to 10% travel may be required to client and customer locations.

Salary: $180,000–$247,500 base annually, plus benefits.

Company

hirify.global develops AI-powered robotic and software platforms for high-density warehouse automation and end-to-end supply chain operations.

What you will do

• Design and develop real-time, high-performance perception software for automated forklifts and loading dock automation systems.
• Lead technical contributions within the Perception organization and collaborate with broader engineering teams.
• Analyze root causes of product-performance issues using systems-level thinking across perception and autonomous vehicle systems.
• Drive project scoping, requirements specification, and long-term technical roadmaps.
• Engage with customer program stakeholders on technical direction, scope, tradeoffs, and relevant KPIs.
• Mentor engineers and establish software quality and engineering best practices.

Requirements

• Master’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Robotics, Mathematics, or a related discipline.
• At least 10 years of professional software development experience for complex, real-time systems.
• Deep robotics perception expertise, including SLAM, sensor fusion, state estimation, computer vision, and real-time processing of multiple cameras or LiDAR sensors.
• Production experience with complex robotic or safety-relevant automated systems, including measurable improvements in reliability, uptime, throughput, or fault reduction.
• Experience with Linux, Docker, CI/CD, asynchronous or multithreaded programming, event-driven architectures, messaging systems, ROS or ROS2, and Agile development.
• Willingness to be based in and work extensively from Austin, Texas, with strong communication skills for direct customer and program-stakeholder engagement.

Nice to have

• Experience with embedded or GPU-accelerated platforms such as Nvidia.
• Experience with autonomous mobile robots, automated forklifts, or similarly complex automated systems.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative, creative, and agile engineering environment.
• Opportunity to work on AI-powered robotics transforming warehouse and supply chain operations.
• Medical, dental, vision, disability, 401(k), PTO, and other benefits.
• Bi-weekly reimbursement for approved business expenses.